Film Screening: «Night for Day» by Emily Wardill

Description

Film Screening Night for Day by Emily Wardill (45 min.) followed by a Q&A with the artist (in English), in conjunction with the symposium Energetic Transfers, 22-24 October 2026, organized by Dr. Alena J. Williams, Professor for Theory and Mediation of Contemporary Art, Akademie der Bildenden Künste Wien and 2026 NOMIS-Feelow / eikones – Zentrum für die Theorie und Geschichte des Bildes. British artist and filmmaker Emily Wardill's Night for Day (2020) is a video installation anchored by two sets of interviews. The first features Isabel do Carmo, an endocrinologist who co-founded the anti-fascist Revolutionary Brigades in Portugal; and second is with two young men who are in the midst of establishing a machine-learning startup company for recognizing moving images in 2019. Centering both subjectivity and the body, the film seeks to answer a hypothetical question: What if Carmo was the fictional mother of these two entrepreneurs, such that the utopia, which fueled her communist struggle in the 1970s, metastasized into their latter-day techno-utopianism? Night for Day was a commission for a solo show at Secession, Vienna and won Wardill the European Media Art Festival Award in 2020. She has had solo exhibitions at the KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin; Bergen Kunsthall; National Gallery of Denmark, Copenhagen; Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe; the Serpentine Gallery, London; and the MIT List Visual Arts Center, Boston among others. Wardill is Professor for Art and Film in the Institute of Fine Arts at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna.

Highlights

• Film screening of «Night for Day» by Emily Wardill
• Followed by a Q&A with the artist
• Free entry, no registration required

General Information

The film screening of «Night for Day» by Emily Wardill will take place at Museum Tinguely in Basel. This event is part of the exhibition «Labouring Bodies» and includes a discussion with the artist, focusing on themes of subjectivity and technology.

Location

Paul Sacher-Anlage 1, 4058 Basel, Switzerland

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